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Punter finished a respectable fourth,completing the course in 25:41, 20 seconds behindthe winner. A dearth of teammates behind Puntercost Harvard the meet, however. Woodward finishedsecond for the Crimson, but 10th overall. JohnOakes, Benjamin and Rob Failla accounted for therest of the scoring, placing 12th, 13th and 14th,respectively...
Last December McCaw Cellular Communications agreed to acquire New York City- based LIN Broadcasting for $3.4 billion. Then in February Contel vaulted from 13th to sixth among cellular companies by acquiring McCaw's Southeastern operations for $1.3 billion. After the GTE announcement, investors snapped up stocks of other likely merger candidates, including Southern New England Telecommunications, Lincoln Telecommunications and Rochester Telephone...
While France and Britain developed centralized monarchies in the late Middle Ages, the German empire remained a crazy quilt of kingdoms, duchies, bishoprics, free cities and other flotsam. In the late 13th century, the imperial crown came into the hands of a Swiss family named Habsburg, but the Habsburgs' only real power and wealth came from their family possessions in Austria and Bohemia; the Germanic Holy Roman Empire, a concept that exercised a magic attraction in the Middle Ages, had about as much authority as the United Nations has today...
...South Korea's resurrection has been an economic miracle, the country has been slower to mature politically. A succession of authoritarian rulers transformed the nation into the world's 13th largest trader -- but at great cost to personal freedom. The first truly free elections in 27 years were held in 1987, when Roh beat a divided opposition by pledging to support democracy...
...warriors, partly because in centuries past youngsters were looked upon as small adults, and thus the sight of them in combat was less horrifying. But there is a difference between being trained to fight and being used to make a symbolic point. In the Children's Crusade of the 13th century, the thousands of boys and girls who were dispatched from Europe to the Holy Land went off unarmed and undefended; their very youth was meant to awe the enemy. Most died of disease or starvation along the way; many of those who survived were captured by pirates and enslaved...